Displaying Server Time on webpages 1

[webmast]

hi,
please help me out..

I want to display the server time on all webpages throught the application.Server side scripting is done using JSP.How to display server time using JSP?..

pri..

 

[meadandale]

<%
Date now = new Date();

// Get format as short time: 12:32pm
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
String time = df.format(now);
%>
The time is: <%= time%>

Note that you can check out the DateFormat API and customize the format so that it displays the date or the timezone info as well.

Regards,

Charles

 

[webmast]

Thanx a lot charles .. i could get the time displayed on the webpage. Is there anyway to continuously refresh the time being displayed so that it looks like a live clock. I would really appreciate any help on that.Thanx once more.

Pri...

 

[meadandale]

Hmmm, that is a tough one. Javascript only executes in response to events so it isn't going to give you a continual display. You'd probably have to go with an applet to do a contiuous output. You could add a meta tag to refresh the page every second or so but that would probably bug the heck out of the user.

 

[froggerIII]

how about write the server's time to the client like charles said, and create a javascript Date object, serverTime, with it; but use the client's time to count seconds and such by using the javascript setTimeout method to increment serverTime. However you want to display it is up to you (in a div tag would be my choice, since it is easily refreshable) ray
rheindl@bju.edu